Understanding the roles of Alternative Rites of Passage and Public Declarations in FGM/C abandonment: An ethnographic study among the Loita Maasai, Kenya
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116412
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Female genital cutting; Female genital mutilation; Alternative Rites of Passage; human rights; pastoralists; Kenya; gender and development;All these keywords.
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